Boston Police Black History Month Tribute Sparks Criticism

Boston Celtics legend Red Auerbach, right, shares a laugh with Celtics great Bill Russell during halftime ceremonies of the Celtics-Washington Wizards game in Boston honoring Auerbach for 50 years service with the team Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1999. (Winslow Townson/AP)

Others pointed out that removing the post was not going to change the situation.

"The point is not that you didn't acknowledge black athletes like chuck cooper and bill Russell, it's that you paid tribute to a white man at all," one Twitter user said, noting that the month was about the "struggle and the accomplishments of black men and women, not the white people who hired them."

ICYMI: the point is not that you didn't acknowledge black athletes like chuck cooper and bill Russell, it's that you paid tribute to a white man at all. This month is about the struggle and the accomplishments of black men and women, not the white people who hired them.